Briefing Room

Bayer CropScience announces the 2015 approval and registration of DiFlexx herbicide by the Environmental Protection Agency. DiFlexx brings together dicamba and the highly effective CSI Safener.
In 2013 trials, dicamba controlled 97 percent of broadleaf weeds in corn.
DiFlexx controls tough weeds such as Palmer amaranth, waterhemp, ragweed and lambsquarter. It also manages more than 100 annual and perennial weeds, including those resistant to glyphosate-, PPO- and ALS-based herbicides....More

Feb. 11, Mycogen Seeds–Puerto Rico Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and an affiliated company of Dow AgroSciences, opened its new Seed Research and Development facility at its Salinas/Guayama site.
As part of Dow AgroSciences’ commitment to communities, Rolando Meninato, Dow AgroSciences Global Leader, Seeds Global Business Unit, and Ivonne Bernard, Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Food Bank, announced a collaboration including a $15,000 donation to the community food bank during an open house event....More

Valent U.S.A. Corporation announced Presidio fungicide has been registered by the Environmental Protection Agency for use on tobacco. This new label provides tobacco growers with a new tool for controlling two tough diseases like blank shank and blue mold. ...More

Public school districts in rural communities can help prepare their students for future academic and career success by applying for $2.3 million in math or science grants from America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund....More

A new insecticide control system by Precision Planting enables farmers to simplify their planter and achieve more precise control of insecticide on every portion of their fields.
“Farmers applying insecticide today calibrate their meter for a single speed. As operators speed up, slow down or plant around curves, the intended application rate is impossible to maintain. And, as high-speed planting is now a reality with SpeedTube, the insecticide system needs to keep pace,” said Luke Stuber, vDrive Insecticide engineer. ...More

Trimble will be adding a profit and loss reporting feature to its Connected Farm Field application—web-based field data management tool growers can use to manage field boundaries, task data, crop health maps and precipitation data.
With the new feature, it is now possible for growers to analyze field profitability and make better financial decisions for their operations....More

DuPont Pioneer is expanding Encirca services to help growers maximize plant stands and yield potential by providing information that will allow growers to look at their fields in an entirely new way....More

A team of 12 Syngenta scientists has developed a corn herbicide with a new active ingredient, bicyclopyrone and three complementary modes of action. Syngenta anticipates registration of the new corn herbicide, Acuron, for the 2015 season....More

Pinnacle Agriculture Holdings, LLC, recently acquired certain assets of Gillett Grain Services, Inc. Gillett Grain will operate as part of Pinnacle’s Sanders brand. Located in Gillett, Ark., Gillett Grain is a farm input and supply company that has been serving area growers for thirty-one years.
The new Sanders location will be managed by Dale Reed. Reed founded Gillett Grain in 1983 and brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience serving the southeast Arkansas agriculture market....More